Past Events from October 7, 2018 – May 14, 2018 – Royal Historical Society of Victoria

  • Walk into history

    Bendigo Historical Society offers a different walk every month. In November they look at Hunter House and surrounds. Meet at Grimsby Mill, 35 Will St Bendigo.

    $5
  • Bonegilla Migrant Experience: Virtual Tour Launch

    The Cube 118 Hovell St, Wodonga, VIC, Australia

    Authors Paul Grover and Bruce Pennay will introduce a new self-guided 3D virtual tour and showcase innovative history investigations on the new Investigating Bonegilla website.

  • Celebration of the 90th birthday of Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The Royal Historical Society of Victoria is hosting a A SPARKLING MORNING TEA TO CELEBRATE THE 90th BIRTHDAY OF Professor John Riddoch Poynter AO On Friday 8 November 2019 at 10:30am for 11am  at the rooms of the RHSV, Ground Floor, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne We invite the family, friends, colleagues and students of Professor
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    Free
  • Congress for International Cooperation and Disarmament  (CICD) celebrates 60 years

    Unitarian Peace Memorial Church 110 Grey St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    On 10 November 2019 CICD will celebrate 60 years of active campaigning on peace and nuclear disarmament, social justice and much more… We’d like to invite you to celebrate this with us at our anniversary function. So, please join us as we continue to fight for peace and to Ban the Bomb! Speakers include: Joan Coxsedge: anti
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  • Lecture. Farming the Mallee: Visions and Realities 1890-present

    RHSV ZOOM by Invitation , Australia

    We are honoured that our last major lecture for 2019 will be delivered by Professor Katie Holmes, Director, Centre for the Study of the Inland and co-author of the soon-to-be-published Mallee Country: Land, People, History together with Richard Broome, Charles Fahey and Andrea Gaynor. In the early 1890s the Victorian Mallee was seen as a
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    Free – $20.00
  • Celebration of Fifty Years Membership

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Celebrate 50 years of RHSV membership

    Free
  • BOOK LAUNCH INVITATION to Mallee Country: Land, People, History

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The Royal Historical Society of Victoria and Monash University Publishing are delighted to invite you the launch of Mallee Country: Land, People, History By Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes Mallee Country will be launched by Tom Griffiths, Emeritus Professor of History, ANU. With a special performance by the celebrated gum leaf
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    Free
  • The launch of Melbourne’s Twenty Decades

    RHSV, Gallery Downstairs 239 A'Beckett Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    The RHSV invites our members and friends to attend the launch of our latest book, Melbourne's Twenty Decades.  To be launched by Emeritus Laureate Professor Stuart Macintyre AO FAHA FASSA.

    Free
  • ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. MODULE 5: LOOKING AFTER DIGITAL FILES

    The RHSV is offering a series of 6 linked workshops which cover cataloguing and digitisation. This series of workshops starts with basic concepts and builds in complexity. We have spaced the workshops so that participants have time in which to put into practice their new skills before the next workshop. Some participants will want to
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    $25.00 – $35
  • Explorations Series – Living with the Hume Dam, 1919-2019

    Commerical Club 618 Dean Street, Albury, NSW, Australia

    In 1919 work began on Hume Dam with celebration and acclaim. When it was completed in 1936 it was hailed as an engineering and political achievement, indeed, a nation-building project. How do we understand its history and legacy now in 2019? Join river system and dam managers, environmentalists, historians, photographers and musicians as they share
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